European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 26, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5card shows Bush role in Contra Effort Washington apr a document in the hands of Iran Contra prosecutors indicates George Bush asked president Jose Azcona Hoyo of Honduras in 1986 to help secretly move guns to the nicaraguan  operation Quot can be done with deniability a the document shows. It has been known that then president Reagan made Bush then vice president an emissary to Honduras in 1985 and 1986. But it Wasny to known that Bush a Mission in 1986 was to get Azcona to Quot assure a supplied front that allowed Materiel to reach the contras in their Battle with the leftist nicaraguan government. That message was inscribed on a note card titled Quot special talking Points Azcona that summarized the instructions Reagan administration officials gave Bush. The memo shows that Bush who has maintained he was Quot out of the Loop for All of the Iran Contra scandal was deeply involved in the Reagan administrations Effort to find secret ways to help the contras militarily after Congress banned such help. Iran Contra prosecutors have had the document for years and questioned Bush about it extensively when they took his deposition Jam 11,1988. But its existence was not made Public until Bush released a transcript of the deposition five Days before he left office wednesday. At the time of Bush s meeting with Azcona Congress had banned . Military Aid to the nicaraguan rebels. But it was later Learned that White House aide Oliver l. North had. Been operating a Clandestine arms pipeline to the contras through Honduras a a key element of the Iran Contra scandal. Bush has denied knowing about North a resupply operation until it was exposed. And the document that came to Light this month does not mention the Marine lieutenant colonel or his network. But in the deposition prosecutors quote from the card. It said a Quot Supply of the democratic resistance forces contras or a a internal resistance in Nicaragua heeds support and catalyst.�?�, a Quot armed resistance and their Supply. So we Hope in your Early Days As soon As possible you can take a look at Supply for the dry talk to your military and Tell the military to work out ays to assure a supplied  the card also said Quot we president Reagan and i Hope we can work very quietly and discreetly with you. It can be done with  Bush told Iran Contra prosecutors and an Fri agent that he did no to recall the card although Quot i can to deny i received it. He said he had several conversations with Azcona during the Jan. 26-27,1986, trip to Honduras and acknowledged that he May have discussed re supplying the contras. He also defended the message he was to deliver to Azcona on behalf of the Reagan administration. Quot i Don t think that i should be prohibited from telling a Guy that i d like to Sec him help somebody else a Bush told investigators. Bush is under criminal investigation by Independent counsel Lawrence e. Walsh for Nis five year failure to turn Over to prosecutors his tape recorded diaries from 1987i a a a a a 1986 and on the Iran Contra  the stars and stripes10 year Sago Jan. 26,1983 a a secret air Force study reportedly warns against Long term leases on overseas bases because the increasing number of nations with nuclear arms makes them More difficult to defend.20 years ago Jan. 26,1973 a America said Farewell to Lyndon b. Johnson at the Congress he served for 23 years and at the Church he attended As the country s 36th president. He died Jan. 22.30 year Sago Jan. 26,1963 a Europe a brutally cold Winter which has claimed More than 200 lives showed signs of loosening its ice hard grip on parts of Northern europe.40 year Sago Jan. 26,1953 a a special 24-hour safety Check on All new Haven Railroad passenger trains was ordered by the Fri in the Wake of a second suspected sabotage incident in a week.50 year Sago Jan. 26,1943 a one of every three tanks and planes produced in the United states in 1942 went to America s allies Congress was told by the nations lend lease administrator. World War ii50 years ago today Jan. 2619�?�4 3 Italy s retreating tridentine Mountain division battered by far stronger soviet forces suffers heavy losses at Nikolayev a in the great Bond of the Don River on the Southern soviet front. After a series of quarrels with the italian High command his nominal Superior Field marshal Erwin Rommel is ordered to give up his command in Tunisia but does not immediately comply. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smut publishers inc. World almanac Book of world wot ii Bison books corp., 1981 map retired Justice Marshall Dies sex colleagues admirers Praise american hero supreme court s first Black led fight for civil liberties Washington a retired Justice Thurgood Marshall the first Black to sit on the supreme court and a towering figure of the civil rights movement died sunday of heart failure. He was 84. As a lawyer Marshall argued the landmark Case in which the nation s highest court overturned racial segregation in the Public schools. As a Liberal Justice he was a powerful voice for the disadvantaged. Marshall had been in failing health since his retirement in 1991, and illness forced him to cancel plans wednesday to administer the oath of office to vice president a1 Gore. He died at 2 . At Bethesda naval medical Center in suburban Maryland said Toni House supreme court spokeswoman. President Clinton whose Home state of Arkansas figured prominently in the desegregation Battles of the 1950$, led the Praise for Marshall. He was a Quot giant in the quest for human rights and equal Opportunity in the whole history of our country a the president said in a statement. Quot every american should be grateful for the contributions he made As an advocate and As a Justice of the United states supreme  chief Justice William Rehnquist said Marshall will be remembered As much for his work before coming to the court As after a Quot his untiring leadership in the Legal Battle to outlaw racial  for decades As a Young Man Marshall travelled the nation As the recognized Champion of the poor and powerless. During his 23 years As Legal director of the National association for the advancement of coloured people and his tenure As the Federal governments solicitor general Marshall argued 32 cases before the supreme court he won 29. As a Justice he opposed the death penalty and was a forceful advocate of abortion rights affirmative action and Legal protections for criminal defendants Quot his victories went beyond those pertaining to race a said a. Leon Higginbotham chief judge emeritus of the . Court of appeals for the 3rd circuit based in Philadelphia. A for if he had not won the Brown Case the door of equal Opportunity would have been More tightly closed also to women other minorities and the  Higginbotham was referring to the landmark Case of Brown is. Board of education of Topeka in which the supreme court voided in 1954 state Laws requiring or permitting segregation of Public schools based on race. Laurence tribe constitutional scholar and professor at Harvard Law school called Marshall a the greatest lawyer in retired supreme court Justice Thurgood Marshall age 84 bom july 2,1908, in Baltimore my. Education a.b., Lincoln University 1930 . Howard University 1933. Experience Baltimore attorney 1933-37 assistant special counsel National association for the advancement of coloured people 1936-38 special counsel a act 1938-40 Legal director a act 1940-61 . Circuit court judge 196165 . Solicit or general 1965-67 associate Justice. . Supreme court 1967-91. Family married to Vivien Burey 1929 died 1955 married to Cecilias sural 1955. Sons Thurgood and John. The 20lh Century a when he announced his intention to retire Marshall was asked who should succeed him on the court. Quot me Quot he replied a Short time later president Bush nominated Clarence Thomas also Black who joined the court after an historic confrontation Over allegations of sexual harassment. Marshall was appointed to the court june 13, 1967, by president Lyndon b. Johnson. A gregarious Quick to laugh Man before he was named to the court Marshall became solemn in Public. By the Early 1970s, with Liberal chief Justice Farl Warren gone Marshall was More often in the minority. In 1974, he dissented sharply from a ruling invalidating a plan for busing pupils across school District lines to achieve racial integration. He called the ruling a Quot giant step backward from the courts 1954 Brown decision. By the new York times. Those who worked closely with Justice Thurgood Marshall a his Law clerks colleagues on the Bench and fellow lawyers a remembered him sunday As a larger than life presence who left a lasting imprint on the nation As Well As on their own lives. A the  use the term a said Jack Greenberg the Dean of Columbia College who in 1961 succeeded Marshall As Dirac Tor counsel of the a act Legal defense and educational fund Quot but he had a join Etc Vivoc an exuberance an aggressiveness about things he attacked cases that he worked on issues that he  in the hours after Marshall a death sunday afternoon Many admirers and former colleagues said they would have difficulty isolating his most significant contribution to american society because those contributions seemed endless. James o. Freedman who from 1962 to 1963 worked As a clerk for Marshall when he was a . Appeals court judge agreed with Many that his former Boss crowning achievement was his successful litigation in 1954 of Brown is. Board of education of Topeka in which the supreme court declared that the doctrine of Quot separate but equal in regard to racial segregation in Public schools no longer Hau a place in America. Quot. Quot he Allied himself with an idea whose time had come a said Freedman now the president of Dartmouth College in Hanover . Sherman a. Parks jr., 42, a Topeka kan., lawyer said the Brown decision changed his life. Quot the Brown Case gave me an Opportunity i would t have had otherwise a said Parks who after the Case was decided was permitted to attend kindergarten at the elementary school involved in the Case. Quot i mean in a a Black male and now in Man attorney and the president of the school Board that spawned the Brown  Marshall s former colleagues on the supreme court spoke of him in reverential tones. Quot we be lost a True american hero a said Justice Sandra Day o Connor. Quot in a thinking of How privileged 1 feel to have known him and worked with  Richard Kluger whose 1975 Book simple Justice chronicled the Brown Case said Marshall a role in american social history would be difficult to overstate. Quot without him the whole civil rights movement and the Legal enfranchisement of Blacks might not have happened when it did a Kluger said